William Taylor A Room Above a Convenience Store Paperback Book

William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in San Francisco. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, and a volume of fiction. His work has been published widely in journals across the globe, including Rattle, The New York Quarterly, and The Chiron Review. He was a recipient of the 2013 Kathy Acker Award, and edited Cocky Moon Selected Poems of Jack Micheline (Zeitgeist Press, 2014). A Room Above a Convenience Store, (Roadside Press) is his latest collection of poetry."A William Taylor poem, like Christmas, brings out the best and worst in us. These poems are set somewhere in the distance between American promise and American experience, a landscape of mislaid hopes that turns out to offer a kind of happiness. As voices come and go, some lost, some dead, the rhythm of moving from one rundown scene to another builds until its suddenly broken by a line that flares like a match in a dark alley someone wholl build a kite out of losing tickets, the quick gift of afternoon light or simply having nowhere to be in the morning. Never asking too much of the world, WT has located enough minor miracles among the ruins to carry him, and anyone else drinking up these poems, on through the days and nights ahead." Peter Milton Walsh, singer/songwriter, The Apartments"The poems ofA Room Above a Convenience Storeare raw and honest with William Taylor Jr. s cleareyed vision of the beauty and the terror of these plague times we find ourselves shuffling through. Taylor captures the loneliness and... | William Taylor A Room Above a Convenience Store Paperback Book